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ch.16 key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a light fast sailing ship | caravel |
| a prince was not an explorer but an patron who supported others who wished to explorer | henry the navigator |
| a portuguese explorer who set out for India | vasco da gama |
| the explorer who founded America | christopher colombus |
| a daring adventurer | ferdinand magellan |
| sail completely around the world | circumnavigate |
| the english queen sent him the the tip of south america and explore its west coast | sir francis drake |
| a dutch born sailor | henry hudson |
| a system to the Caribbean | encomienda |
| a guy who led and expedition to that ended with the conquest of the aztec empire | hernan cortes |
| conquer! | conquistador |
| at the time of the Spanish arrival in mexico this guy was the aztec emperor | moctezuma II |
| led an expedition to Peru | Francis pizarro |
| had just taken control of the empire when the spanish arrived | Atahualpa |
| officials that the spanish king chose | viceroys |
| a priest who was the most vocal of the reformers | bartolome de las casas |
| signed in 1492 drew an imaginary line the Atlantic. | treaty of tordesillas |
| a global transfer | columbiann exchange |
| a new type of economic policy the europeans devolopoed | mercantilism |
| two ways the mercantilist believed the nation could develop wealth | balance of trade |
| to grant money to help business people start new industries | subsidies |
| an economic system | capitalism |
| to fund ever larger businesses | joint-stock companies |
| estates where cash crops as sugar or tobacco were grown on a larger scale | plantations |
| where captured Africans were marched to slave ships where they became a part of a network | triangular trade |
| Where brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves | middle passage |
| an African who wrote about horrific conditions | olaudah equiano |
| the descent of africans which spread throughout the Americans and western Europe! | african diaspora |